Items in or near Essex (results page 6)

1150.—The Coronation of Henry IVOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The coronation ceremony shown here, at which Henry IV was crowned and became King Henry IV, took place at Westminster Abbey in October 1399. The engraving (almost certainly on wood) is signed J. Johns [...]

Keywords: religion, royalty, people, events, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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1156.—Tomb of Henry IV and his QueenOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

One day whilst he was praying before the shrine of [Edward] the confessor in Westminster Ammey, he was seized with an apoplectic fit. The attendants carried him to the abbot’s apartments, and there l [...]

Keywords: tombs, royalty, statuary, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-02-17

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Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)A Short History of the English People (1902)

This is said to be the oldest surviving wooden church in England, and is dedicated to Saint Andrew. It was built within 50 years of the Norman Conquest (before or after), probably in place of an older [...]

Keywords: churches, anglosaxon remains, buildings, spires, medieval architecture, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Greensted; Essex; England

Added: 2025-01-28

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1275.—Tomb of Sir John Crosby.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A tomb lies in a quiet corner of a church, partly in deep shadow. [...] This is the church of St. Helen’s in Bishopsgate (Fig. 1285), formerly the remains of a priory of Benedictine nuns, whose long r [...]

Keywords: tombs, interiors, churches, spooky, death, statuary, carving, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Bishopsgate; London; England

Added: 2012-09-19

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Old Curiosity Shop, LondonFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

Charles Dickens’ story The Old Curiosity Shop was published in 1840; the photograph here dates from 1893 or so and shoes the London shop of H. Poole, Waste Paper Dealer; on the side of the building, u [...]

Keywords: dickens, london, shops, streets, street scenes, cobbles, signs, windows, fog, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2020-09-19

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Sketch of the Decorations of the unfinished South Wing of the New Houses of Parliament.London (Volume VI) (1841)

When this book was published in 1841, the Houses of Parliament building was not finished; the engraving here shows them partly built. “We should have been glad to have furnished our readers with a vie [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, construction, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-11-14

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Newgate – Exercise YardLondon (1872)

Prisoners walk in a circle in a stone-walled prison courtyard that admits very little light. The guards look on, wearing smarter clothes and top hats. Newgate’s sombre walls suggest sad thoughts on t [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, people, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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The White Tower, or Tower of LondonThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

“This tower was erected anno 1079, by William the Conqueror, as a keep to a fortress begun by him in the year 1067, to awe the citizens of london; the architect was Gundulph, bishop of Rochester. Fitz [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-04-11

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1423.—Hever Castle. (From an Original Sketch)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Anne Bullen [Anne Boleyn] behaved throughout the whole affair with the utmost prudence. Shehad determiend to be the king’s wife, not his mistress; and from that determnation ensued events, the import [...]

Keywords: castles, cattle, sheep, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hever; Kent; England

Added: 2008-03-03

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Westminster HallLondon (Volume VI) (1841)

“Interior of Westminster Hall, as seen during the Trial of Lambert, before Henry VIII.” (p. 144)

Keywords: interiors, royalty, halls, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-15

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Penshurst Place, KentAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“In this fourteenth-century castle lived the great English liberal, Algernon Sidney, the friend and counsellor of William Penn, who had a hand in drawing up the famous “Frame of Government” for the Pr [...]

Keywords: manors, trees, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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On the SerpentineThe Circling Year (1870)

A night-time Winter scene in Victorian London: it’s the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, and it’s frozen over with ice. People are skating, carrying burning torches to light their way; in the foreground [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, ice, winter, holidays, skating, bridges, crowds, torchlight, roast chestnuts, people, trees, lakes, rivers, colour

Places shown: Hyde Park; London; England

Added: 2018-06-09

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XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords.Monumental Architecture (1910)

Monumental Architecture. XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords. Sir John Soane, Architect. The Scala Regia is the ante-room and gallery (corridor) at the House of Lords in Westminster; Sir John Soane desig [...]

Keywords: interiors, ceilings, windows, entrances, stairs, steps, neoclassical, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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The Tower of LondonTurrets Towers and Temples (1899)

The main keep (the White Tower) was probably build around 1070, so it’ll be having its thousandth birthday soon.

Keywords: castles, towers, colour

Places shown: London; Middlesex; England

Added: 2004-03-20

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Baronial hall, Penshurst PlaceAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“On the left are the buttery and the kitchens and, separated from the stone passage by a screen of carved oak panels, is the Great Hall, the glory and wonder of the castle, with its open timber roof, [...]

Keywords: interiors, fireplaces, manors, furniture, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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The Post-Office at PenshurstAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Perhaps Tudor or older?

Keywords: houses, gravestones, chimneys, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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1532.—Interior of the Beauchamp TowerOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London; the tower was built in the thirteenth century during the reign of King Edward I. It’s named after Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who was imprisoned ther [...]

Keywords: castles, interiors, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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The Baptistry, CanterburyEngland Beautiful (1936)

Keywords: abbeys, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-06-05

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1675.—North side of the Priory Cloisters, Christ’s Hospital.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Christ’s Hospital is a charity-funded boarding school founded in the sixteenth century and still open today. It’s also known as the bluecoat school because of the school uniform My father (Eric Quin) [...]

Keywords: buildings, exteriors, acrches, doors, schools, children, boys, people, windows, chimneys, greyscale

Places shown: Horsham; Essex; England

Added: 2018-01-30

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1731.—Gray’s Inn Hall.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

o Gray’s Inn Hall (Fig. 1731) is superior to that of Lincoln’s Inn or the Inner temple, and little inferior to the Middle Temple Hall. Its chief architectural attractions are its timber roof, carved [...]

Keywords: interiors, halls, windows, ceilings, rafters, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-08-22

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